West Chester Area School District
Wednesdays, and Fridays from 1:05 pm -1:55 pm. Students will be scheduled to depart from their high school at the conclusion of 6th period and travel by way of their own transportation to the Graduate Center located off of Greenhill Road. Tuition and fees are to be determined. Complete course descriptions are included within the guide.
There are 2 Dual Enrollment courses offered on a rotating basis in conjunction with West Chester University. These courses will be taught on site by WCASD teaching staff. For 2021-2022 the course offered will be Advanced Geoscience: Astronomy and Geology. For 2022-2023 the course offered will be Advanced Geoscience: Oceanography and Meteorology. Students successfully completing this full-year college level course will receive six college credits from West Chester University.
Career Education Program
The West Chester Area School District’s multi- faceted Career Education Program connects high school students with real world experiences, serving as a critical link between classroom learning, both in curriculum content and skill acquisition, and in the world of work. Deeper learning occurs through the purposeful integration of rigorous academic content with diverse experiences to build knowledge, intentionally cultivate skills, and broaden perspectives for students to become lifelong learners and purposeful contributors to our community and beyond.
Business and community connections positively impact students through the sharing of practical work experiences and learned life lessons that help students make informed career decisions. Through these meaningful interactions, community leaders also help students identify and hone future-ready skills needed to compete and succeed in the workplace.
Our goal is to provide awareness to students and families of the spectrum of post-secondary career and education and training opportunities including school to work, apprenticeship, certification, and two year and four year college/university programs. Purposeful and rewarding careers abound in both the skilled trades and those requiring a college degree, and may be achieved at various levels of financial cost.
Career Education Components – Grades 9 - 12 identify
and develop
• Personal Interest & Aptitude Exploration: Students
personal
interests through course selection including an array of elective course offerings, participation in extracurricular clubs, sports, and activities, and engagement in our comprehensive career exploration software program.
• Future-Ready Skills: Classroom and
community based experiences focused on learning, literacy and life skills. Learning skills focus on the “Four Cs”: critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity. Literacy
information, media, and technology skills that
focus
skills, on
digital comprehension.
include Life
skills (“FLIPS”), include flexibility, leadership, initiative, productivity and social skills.
• Career Awareness via Field Trips, Community Events, and Career Showcases: Students may participate in a variety of curriculum related field trips, events and showcases in various career clusters and post-secondary educational
institutions.
Collaboration with leadership and mentoring organizations such as Junior Achievement (JA), Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week (PFEW), Youth Leadership Program (YLP), and others is included. Students complete a reflection of their experience(s) which is housed in their individual
career portfolio, allowing experience to shape their future vision.
• Job Shadowing and Internship Program – Grades 11, 12: Job shadowing is a career exploration activity in which students gain exposure to careers that they are interested in pursuing by working with business/community volunteers for part of a work day. By visiting a workplace, investigating a career field and industry, and experiencing a typical day on the job, students can determine if the career and industry fits their interests, skills, and career aspirations. Students may initiate their own experiences or in coordination with the Career Education Counselor.
Internships provide juniors and seniors a deeper understanding of, and experience within, a business/institution/non-profit organization, over a minimum time period of 60 hours. This may be
each also called “IMT”,
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